Floquet analysis of inelastic collisions of ions with Rydberg atoms
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0055 (United States)
The theory of Demkov {ital et} {ital al}. {bold (}Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. {bold 66}, 125 (1974) [Sov. Phys. JETP {bold 39}, 57 (1974)]{bold )} for collisional mixing of degenerate states of a hydrogenlike target is generalized to nonhydrogenic targets parametrized by a set of quantum defects, {l_brace}{mu}{sub {ital l}}{r_brace}, with {ital l} the orbital angular-momentum quantum number of the Rydberg electron. Schroedinger`s equation is written in periodic form in the impact-parameter approximation by using the angle of rotation of the internuclear line, as opposed to the time, as the independent variable. Quasiperiodic solutions are constructed by Floquet analysis, as in studies of Rydberg-state mixing by oscillatory fields, leading to an infinite-dimensional eigenvalue equation whose eigenvectors and eigenvalues determine the evolution operator of the collision system. An initial application to ``{ital l}-mixing collisions`` of ions with alkali-metal atoms indicates that dipole-forbidden transitions dominate depopulation cross sections at intermediate collision speeds.
- OSTI ID:
- 118452
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review A, Journal Name: Physical Review A Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 52; ISSN PLRAAN; ISSN 1050-2947
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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